We are sad to announce that 2015 is the final year for MFLS.
We thank all the players who have participated over the 20 seasons we've done this.
See our farewell
post for more info.

11/4

The MFLS 2015 standings are now final and winners have been notified. Check out the updated MFLS Hall of
Fame to see the 2015 honorees. Thanks for participating in MFLS!

10/25

The MFLS 2015 season is now complete with the finish of the MLS regular season today.
Thanks to everyone for participating. We hope it was fun.
As usual, we will wait one week for any last minute scoring errors to be submitted before conferring
honors on the overall Fantasy League and Prediction League winners. We will be in contact with the
winners next week. Congrats to NY Red Bulls on the Supporters Shield and to Sebastian Giovinco of
Toronto on the Golden Boot.

9/21

Brian Bliss has replaced
Frank Yallop as coach of Chicago.
All rosters with Yallop have been automatically replaced with Bliss as coach per MFLS rules.

I'm getting a wide range of feedback on this, ranging from outrage to kudos. Bobby Warshaw copped to the fact that he missed the satire of it initially, and instead, went into angry anti-gun defense mode. I think it says a lot about the state of the gun debate that some people thought I was serious about Toyota Stadium being locked and loaded for home games. Sheesh.

One thing I was serious about- it is an absolute travesty they're not marketing their team better, and they really should look into a dedicated marketing campaign to highlight the local roots of the team. That will bring out people to games who don't normally come- decades of provincial advertising success provides pretty strong evidence of that.

Nice job, FCBT. I enjoyed the set. Well written. I need to start reading more of your stuff!

I don't think you can look at only one issue and say definitively 'this is the reason'. I've learned never to deal in absolutes. There are in all likelihood several factors at play in the attendance, but I wouldn't discount location as a big contributor. I think the teams that opted for cheap land outside the city center wish they had a do-over.

Uh, no doubt about it on the location. Frisco neighbors the exurbs, and may be the furthest club away from the city center in all of MLS (maybe all of professional sports). Honestly, it may be the biggest factor.

I actually started scribbling on this back in April when Frank DeFord wrote his column about how people don't care about MLS, and it kind of went from there. The whole 'conservative' argument...eh, there's probably some merit to it, but it's impossible to prove or disprove the extent without good polling and another outlier to compare to. Sounds like a good college thesis.

hey guys, while we are soliciting feedback, remember that time
years ago i was a soccer blogger (with a terrible pseudonym)?

http://www.soccerticketsonline.com/sto-soccer-film-review-
victory/

not my best work (and i apologize if i shared it here before, i
have a bad memory from years of... dang, i forget), but Byrd's
post took me back to my own glory days as a soccer
muckraker and i wanted to share my most ridiculous post of all
time probably. back then the owner of that site paid me top
dollar for such "witty" posts. i'm not kidding either, the guy paid
me WAY too much to riff (badly) on things like Sly Stallone
films. in hindsight, wow, his business plan really sucked.